R. A. Fisher's scientific contributions

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... This fundamental idea goes back to the invention of the so-called pivotal method due to William Sealy Gosset, who published under the pen name Student and developed most famously Student's t-distribution (Student, 1908). However, the generalizations of the pivotal method for the development of statistical theory diverged later in two dominant directions: Ronald A. Fisher's inverse probability, which has been known as the fiducial argument (Fisher, 1930(Fisher, , 1973, and Jerzy Neyman's concept of a confidence interval (Neyman, 1934(Neyman, , 1992. However, the solution to the fundamental inferential problem has not yet been settled. ...